18 August 2017
A new Earth-like planet may have been found as close as 16 light years away
... Griffith, UTA undergraduate student and long-time UTA physics professor Zdzislaw Musielak. The first two exoplanets of this system were discovered using the radial velocity technique. The technique examines variations in the velocity...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
...Solar System. TESS, which stands for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, will search for its targets by ... planetary transits. The survey is hoping to uncover thousands of exoplanets from gas giants to small rocky worlds orbiting a diverse range...
11 April 2018
Revealing planet formation processes with SPHERE
...’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), SPHERE or the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument is mainly tasked with detecting and studying new giant exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. However, the state-of-the-art adaptive optics...
01 December 2017
Search for life more difficult than previously assumed
... bay. But how would ozone on say Proxima b – our nearest exoplanet neighbour – look to us if we observed it with a telescope. Proxima...However, there is still hope. "In principle, an exoplanet with an ozone layer that covers only the equatorial region...
09 February 2018
New research on rocky worlds helps identify Earth-like planets
... detected to date. In order to try and understand what an exoplanet is made of, researchers need to measure both its radius and its...determine its bulk density. And for the number of exoplanets that these measurements have been made for so far, ...
19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
NASA’s next planet-hunting mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has arrived in Florida to begin preparations for its launch in April. TESS is set to become ...
